Recent Externally Funded Awards
September-October 2020
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston, Neal | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New York State Education Department | New York DLM: 2020-2025 Operational/Testing + Additional Services | $18,448,028 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Illinois State Board of Education | Illinois DLM: 2020-2025 Operational/Testing | $12,903,000 |
| Burgin, Amy | Environmental Studies Program | National Science Foundation | RII Track-2 FEC: Aquatic Intermittency Effects on Microbiomes in Streams (AIMS) | $5,998,875 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Pennsylvania Department of Education | Pennsylvania DLM: 2020-2021 Operational/Testing + Science Development + Additional Services | $3,899,538 |
| Boyd, Brian | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Validation of an Outcome Measure of Early Social-Communication for Young Children with ASD | $2,783,114 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | U.S. Army | Waveform Diversity for Complex Environments | $1,905,826 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Determining Mechanisms of Innate Immune Modulation by ADP-ribosylation | $1,797,716 |
| Spencer, Paulette | Mechanical Engineering / Institute for Bioengineering Research | National Institutes of Health | Peptide-Polymer Engineering Dentin/Adhesive Interfacial Bond Integrity | $1,727,102 |
| Lundquist, Erik | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Regulation of Directed Neuroblast Migration by the ECM and MAB-5/Hox | $1,401,834 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | EFRI DCheM: Next-generation Low Global Warming Refrigerants | $1,393,034 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | KU Student Support Services Science, Technology, Math, Engineering & Health Sciences (SSS STEM) | $1,309,440 |
| Horn, Eva | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project for Interprofessional Preparation-Early Childhood Intervention (PIP-ECI) | $1,250,000 |
| Kurth, Jennifer | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project INSTRUCT (Inclusive Interdisciplinary Supports and Training for Positive, Rigorous Education & Communication Outcomes) | $1,250,000 |
| Paden, John | Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | NASA | Operational Multichannel Snow Radar for Swath Mapping of Snow Layers on Ice Sheets, Sea Ice, and Land | $762,724 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Network Cluster: Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry in the Critical Zone | $660,815 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | New Mexico Children, Youth & Families | New Mexico ROM FY2021 | $621,750 |
| Dean, Evan | KU Center on Developmental Disabilities / Life Span Institute | National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research | Promoting Career Design and Development via Telehealth for Rural Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | $600,000 |
| Duncan, Tyrone | Mathematics / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Stochastic Control for Systems with Non-Gaussian Noise | $586,664 |
| Wang, Zijun | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Neuronal Circuits and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Early Social Isolation-Potentiated Heroin Seeking | $573,832 |
| Foster, Bryan | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | FSML: Enhancing Research Support Infrastructure at the University of Kansas Field Station | $571,375 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / KU Transportation Center | University of Nebraska – Lincoln | University Transportation Centers Open Competition | $467,382 |
| Wang, Zhi | Aerospace Engineering | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Pushing the Limit for Large Eddy Simulation through a Kinetic Energy and Entropy Preserving FR Method, and Mesh Adaptation Based on Machine Learning | $451,006 |
| Tremblay, Annie | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Enhancing the Perception and Recognition of Spoken Words in a Second Language: A Cue-Weighting Approach | $449,961 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Grant for Assistive Technology | $443,831 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | GHSR1a and Hippocampal Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease | $442,739 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | CNS Core: Medium: Combating Latency and Disconnectivity in mmWave Networks: From Theory to Implementation | $438,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Booz, Allen, Hamilton, Inc. | Design of an Ammonia + Ionic Liquid Absorber and Desorber System | $416,998 |
| Dobrowsky, Rick | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | A Novel Pharmacologic Approach to Treat CMT1X | $387,165 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | Gas Saparation Using Furan-based Polymer Membranes – Project H22020 | $384,927 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Mitochondrial ATP Synthase Dysfunction and Synaptic Stress in Alzheimer's Disease | $374,192 |
| Reuman, Daniel | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Synchrony in Giant Kelp Populations | $358,592 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Connecting Communities (KCC): Maternal Depression and Related Behavioral Disorders | $356,367 |
| Carlson, Juliana | Social Welfare | Futures Without Violence | A Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare | $300,000 |
| Hui, Rongqing | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | CNS Core: Medium: RUI: Optics without Borders | $289,291 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating Playas in Western Kansas: Recharge to the High Plains Aquifer and Economics of Cropping | $269,897 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Natural Resources Conservation Service | Modeling Water Quality and In-stream Biological Endpoints of Agricultural Conservation in the Mississippi River Basin | $269,311 |
| Besson, David | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | WoU-MMA: The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos: Toward a Transformative Technology for Neutrino Detection | $258,200 |
| Xu, Liang | Geography & Atmospheric Science / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Utah | Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Renal Fibrosis by Targeting RNA-binding Protein HuR Targeting | $250,000 |
| Bever, James | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Science Foundation | Manipulating Mycorrhizal Fungi: Plant Symbionts in Organic Agriculture | $250,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas State University | Linking Microbiome Function and Microbial Processes to Plant Genetic Diversity in a Foundation Forage Grass across the Great Plains Grassland Climate Gradient: A Multi-omics Approach | $242,112 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Pharmacology & Toxicology / High Throughput Screening Laboratory | Western University of Health Sciences | Therapeutic Intervention of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: A Tick-borne Viral Illness | $216,666 |
| Besson, David | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | WoU-MMA: Askaryan Radio Array: The World's Forefront Neutrino Astrophysics Program from 100 PeV | $214,847 |
| Hardison, Ayesha | English / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment for the Humanities | Hurston on the Horizon in the Past, Present, and Future | $200,000 |
| Barton, Jared | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Social Welfare | TFI Family Services | TFI Family Services ROM 2020-2022 | $151,350 |
| Robinson, Jennifer | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Pamela Johnson 2020 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study | $150,000 |
| Brook, Joanna | Social Welfare | Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse | Oklahoma Partnership Initiative Phase 3: Program Evaluation FY2021 | $148,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | The Community Check: A Participatory Community Monitoring and Evaluation System for Prevention in Kansas | $143,599 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy | NASA | How Do Undetected AGN Affect Galaxy Evolution? | $132,957 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Avium LLC | SBIR Phase II: Dual Element Matrix (DEM) Water Electrolyzer | $129,729 |
| Daley, Dorothy | Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort Four – 2020 | $124,000 |
| Krause, Rachel | Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Assessing the Impact of Lead Agency Cross-functional Authority on City Sustainability Outcomes | $121,287 |
| Ortiz, Kelsey | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction | Identifying Evidence-Based Practices and Developing Technical Assistance and Professional Development Materials on Serving Students with Disabilities with Online Learning | $120,000 |
| Stewart, Debora | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Preserving Kansas Geologic Data, Documents, Samples, and Aerial Photographs; and Surveying Critical Mineral Resources, FY 2020 | $117,676 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet & Trust Fund | Access to Care & Remote Learning Support for School-aged Children | $106,006 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas Online Automated Reporting (KOLAR) Project FY 2021 | $102,000 |
| Dean, Evan | KU Center on Developmental Disabilities / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Coming Together and Moving Forward: Supporting Integrated, Community-Based Transition in Kansas | $100,000 |
| Beck, Darin | Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center / KU Professional & Continuing Education | Kansas Highway Patrol | NSGP Security Upgrade | $100,000 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | American Lung Association | Molecular Analysis of Antibody Responses Associated with COVID-19 Respiratory Distress | $100,000 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Wastewater COVID-19 Sampling and Analysis in Rural Kansas | $80,000 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Colorado State University | Guidance for Training and Certification of Construction Inspectors for Transportation Infrastructure | $80,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics & Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | The Atmospheric Diversity of Mini-Neptunes in Multi-planet Systems | $77,475 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Statewide Afterschool Networks Innovation Grants to Expand Youth Opportunity | $75,000 |
| Richter, Mark | Molecular Bioscience | Designzyme | Cortisol Biosensor Phase 1 | $74,890 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Clinical Child Psychology / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Brain and Behavioral Features of Sensorimotor Abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorders | $72,820 |
| Byers, Kaela | Social Welfare | TFI Family Services | KU and TFI Examination of Predictors of Youth Absent from Care | $69,504 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Molecular Biosciences / Bioinformatics | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Understanding Polycystin-1 Structure-GPCR Function for the Development of New Therapeutic Approaches in ADPKD | $67,000 |
| Murray, Angela | Life Span Institute / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Brady Education Foundation | Continued Development of the Montessori Implementation Measure and 2020 Montessori Retreat with an Enhanced Equity Focus | $65,689 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Child Care Systems Improvement Team (CC-SIT) Services | $65,000 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas A&M Research Foundation | Measuring Transport Properties of Portland Cement Concrete using Electrical Resistivity | $53,368 |
| Muddiman, Ashley | Communication Studies / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Social Science Research Council | Social Media Incivility and Candidate Gender During the 2020 U.S. Elections | $50,000 |
| Robinson, Jennifer | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | Deciphering Sex Differences in Adolescent Knee Meniscal Injury and Regeneration | $50,000 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | BioNexus KC | The Role of a Sugar (O-GlcNAc) Modification of Ewing Sarcoma Protein in Chromosomal Instability | $50,000 |
| Davidson, Andrew | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Wyandotte Economic Development Council | WyCo Works | $50,000 |
| Friss, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | BBC Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting LLC | The Sustainable Heartland Accelerator Regional Partnership (SHARP) Hub | $49,821 |
| Harris, Theodore | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Master Agreement with Kansas Department of Health & Environment: EVT0007316 | $49,000 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Redox Behavior of Catalysts for Olefin Oligomerization 2: Joint Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies | $49,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Baylor University | SII Planning: Developing a National Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Center for Adaptive and Reconfigurable Wireless Technology | $47,000 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | Duke University | HIV-1 Vaccine-elicited Antibodies Target Envelope Glycans | $42,420 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet & Trust Fund | Technology for Families Fund Support | $40,000 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bridging Grant | Bridge Proposal: Droplet-based Single B and T Cell Receptor Screening for Multi-parameter Adaptive Immune Monitoring | $40,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | Evaluation of the Wichita North GEAR UP Program 2020-21 | $40,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | GEAR UP South Wichita Project 2020-21 | $40,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $40,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU West Wichita GEAR UP 2020-21 | $40,000 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Wastewater COVID-19 Sampling and Analysis in Metro KC | $30,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 3) | $29,084 |
| Muma, Nancy | Pharmacology & Toxicology | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Development of Novel Drugs with Biased Signaling for the Treatment of Schizophrenia | $25,001 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bridging Grant | Role of CDKs in HSV-1 ICP0 Functions | $25,000 |
| Jarmolowicz, David | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $22,906 |
| Murray, Angela | Life Span Institute / Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Montessori Society | AMS Research Consulting | $22,707 |
Previous Awards
July-August 2020
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston, Neal | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Kansas Summative Assessments FY2021-2027 | $29,955,015 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Utah State Office of Education | Alternate Statewide Assessment for Utah Students in Grades 3-11 | $7,100,267 |
| Wills, Howard | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Initial Efficacy Evaluation of the CW-FIT Middle School Program: Improving Academic Engagement and Outcomes for Middle School Students | $3,300,000 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Structure and Function of Gamma-Secretase in Familial Alzheimer's Disease | $2,910,490 |
| Yang, Xinmai | Mechanical Engineering / Institute for Bioengineering Research | National Institutes of Health | Wearable Real-time Functional Brain Mapping for a Non-human Primate Stroke Model | $2,755,599 |
| Jackson, Timothy | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Graduate Training at the Biology-Chemistry Interface | $1,928,225 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary/Secondary Education | Missouri DLM: 2020-2021 Operational/Testing + Additional Services | $1,620,001 |
| Cartwright, Paulyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | MARC at the University of Kansas | $1,573,996 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Particle Physics at the Energy Frontier with the CMS Experiment | $1,200,000 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Life Span Institute | Arizona State Department of Education | AZ College & Career Competency Team | $1,056,000 |
| Blumenstiel, Justin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | How Genomic Shock Triggers Transposition during Hybrid Dysgenesis | $821,430 |
| Vieglais, David | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Proposal: Frameworks: Internet of Samples: Toward an Interdisciplinary Cyberinfrastructure for Material Samples | $636,082 |
| Li, Fengjun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Privacy-Preserving Federated Transfer Learning for Early Acute Kidney Injury Risk Prediction | $579,941 |
| Blum, Michael | Geology | National Science Foundation | NSF GEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Impact of the Plio-Pleistocene Transition on Provenance and Sediment Routing from the Himalaya to the Deep-Sea Bengal Fan | $557,643 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Inservice Training System: Infant and Toddler Expansion | $553,670 |
| Gomez Garcia Alvestegui, Daniel | Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | NASA | Integration of the Snow Radar onto a Long-Endurance Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle for Thickness Measurements of Snow over Sea-Ice and Land-Ice | $539,714 |
| Atkinson, Brian | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Unearthing Antarctica's Role in the Late Cretaceous Evolution of Flowering Plants | $488,934 |
| Elles, Christopher | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Ultrafast Dynamics of Highly Excited Molecules in the Condensed Phase | $485,331 |
| Zhao, Hui | Physics | U.S. Department of Energy | Electron Transfer in Heterostructures Based on Two-dimensional Materials | $485,275 |
| Smith, Jon | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY20 | $427,965 |
| Taylor, Michael | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Dry Rifting in the Albertine-Rhino Graben, Uganda | $417,798 |
| Thompson, Ward | Chemistry | U.S. Department of Energy | Understanding Rate Constants of Hydrated Electron Reactions | $400,609 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | North Dakota Department of Public Instruction | North Dakota DLM: 2020-2021 Operational/Testing | $373,620 |
| Medvedev, Mikhail | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA Extreme Quantum-Electrodynamic and General-Relativistic Plasma Physics | $370,000 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Life Span Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary/Secondary Education | Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $313,821 |
| Meyer Jr, Wallace | Business / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Economic Development Administration | Application for Administration of Supplemental Planning Grant for CARES Act Recovery Assistance | $300,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Equipment Exchange: Increasing Access to Durable Medical Equipment | $285,000 |
| Chen, Geng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Large Solutions for Systems of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Wave Equations in One and Multiple Space Dimensions | $264,998 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | National Center on Deaf Blindness | Materials and Analyses to Support Technical Assistance for Students Who are Deaf-Blind | $242,038 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Assisting Medicaid Beneficiaries in Accessing Assistive Technology | $228,000 |
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Purdue University | Distributed Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion for Spectrum Sensing System Optimization | $219,999 |
| Koch, Lisa | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kansas Rural Transit Assistance Program – FY 2021 | $219,549 |
| Paden, John | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EAGER: A Dual-Band Radar for Measuring Internal Ice Deformation: A Multipass Ice-Penetrating Radar Experiment on Thwaites Glacier and the McMurdo Ice Shelf | $216,082 |
| Marshall, Craig | Geology | NASA | A Feasibility Study of Raman Optical Activity for the Detection and Discrimination of Chiral Biological Compounds for Planetary Science Instrumentation | $206,399 |
| Staples, William | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | RAPID: Understanding the Experiences of Public Internet Users during the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic | $200,000 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Monitoring as an Indicator for Community Prevalence of COVID-19 | $200,000 |
| Deer, Sarah | Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | Carnegie Corporation of New York | Indigenous Democracies: Native Women and the Future of Tribal Nations in the United States | $200,000 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Productivity and Soil Fertility Responses to Grassland Plant Diversity: Testing Competing Hypotheses | $180,000 |
| Iqbal, Asif | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Online Water Use Report, FY2019-2022 | $164,217 |
| Cravens, Thomas | Physics & Astronomy | University of Colorado | Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields? | $152,426 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment for the Humanities | Spencer Art at Home: Sustaining Public Access to Art, Ideas, and Experiences with the Spencer Museum of Art | $150,000 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EarthChem & SESAR – Data Infrastructure for Geochemistry and Earth Science Samples Communitiesummer Scholars | $122,599 |
| Li, Jian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Evaluation of Vibration Mitigation Techniques for KDOT High Mast Illumination Poles | $117,199 |
| Besson, David | Physics & Astronomy | NASA | Particle Astrophysics with the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO): A Next Generation Long-duration Balloon-borne Instrument for the Cosmic High Energy Frontier | $110,000 |
| Wang, Guanghui | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Automated Identification and Classification of Laryngeal Diseases Using Deep Neural Networks | $101,190 |
| Hill, Mary | Geology | U.S. Geological Survey | Visualizing the Invisible: Causes, Consequences, Changes, and Management of Streamflow Depletion across the U.S. | $100,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | United Way, Kansas City, Missouri | United Way Quality Matter Technical Assistance | $100,000 |
| Wang, Guanghui | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Wichita State University | An Active Learning Framework for Increasing Generalizability of Machine Learning Models | $99,994 |
| Li, Fengjun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Security Agency | 2020 GenCyber University of Kansas | $99,927 |
| Collado, Anahi | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Working Memory Training as Pretreatment Adjunct to Smoking Cessation | $99,188 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Wyoming Department of Family Services | Wyoming ROM FY2021 | $98,735 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Using Big Data Approaches to Assess Ecohydrological Resilience across Scales | $94,675 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education | Development of Hooked, Headed, and Straight Bars in Compression | $90,000 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey | University of the Virgin Islands | Ridge to Reef Processes and Interdependent Drivers of Small Island Resilience | $84,353 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Maine Department of Health & Human Services | State of Maine ROM 2020-2022 | $79,525 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $72,820 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 21-4:Evaluation of Near-Miss Crashes Using a Video-Based Tool | $71,500 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 21-2: Pullout Resistance of Reinforcement in Lightweight Cellular Concrete Fill | $67,753 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Southeast Kansas Respite Care Services | $66,100 |
| Lunte, Susan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | NASA | Development of an Integrated System for Cell Analysis and Profiling by Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry | $65,105 |
| Mendenhall, Amy | Social Welfare | Saint Francis Community Services | Saint Francis Ministries IMPACT Framework: Impact Measurement for Program, Agency, and Clint Transformation | $63,819 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | HKA | ACRP 01-45: Selecting, Procuring, and Implementing Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods | $61,027 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | U.S. Poultry & Egg Association | Poultry-safe and Environment-acceptable Pest-repellent Paint | $53,250 |
| Colombo, John | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Gatlinburg Conference on Research in ID/DD | $50,000 |
| Christine, Mary | Institute for Leadership Studies | The Women's Foundation of Greater Kansas City | Kansas Appointments Project: Ready to Run Women's Leadership Series | $50,000 |
| Hartley, Meredith | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | American Thyroid Association | Thyroid Hormone Signaling during Remyelination | $50,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | BioNexus KC | Small Molecule-oligonucleotide Conjugate for the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Improved Specificity | $50,000 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | North Dakota State University | House Sparrow Collections across the Continental United States | $49,159 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Partnership Pair: Novel NanoChip to Detect Exosomal Biomarkers in Liquid Biopsy of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Metastasis | $45,450 |
| Picking, William | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Anivive Lifesciences | Completion of Foam-drying Methods for Stabilizing Coccidioides Acps1 Spores | $43,267 |
| Jiang, Yunfeng | Mathematics | Simons Foundation | New Structures and Dualities in Gromov-Witten Theory and Vafa-Witten Theory | $42,000 |
| Johnson, Mathew | Mathematics | Simons Foundation | Modulation and Dynamics of Nonlinear Waves | $42,000 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Kansas Corn Commission | Unlocking the Potential of Chemical Derivatives in Ethanol Production | $41,835 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Towards Establishing a Kansas Biodiesel Consortium Year 5 | $41,008 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Spatial Variability and Subsurface Controls of Groundwater Recharge and Nutrient Mobilization in Dry Streams | $40,000 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment for the Arts | Boarders that Define and Divide | $40,000 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Designing Peptide-based Inhibitors of Bacterial Efflux Pumps | $37,875 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department for Children & Families | FY 21: Kanas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) | $37,407 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Tiny K: Infant Toddler Assistive Technology Services | $35,500 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program – KNI | $35,500 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program – Parsons State Hospital | $35,500 |
| Lunte, Susan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | NI2O | Novel, Rapid, Portable COVID-19 Detection | $31,996 |
| Wang, Zhi | Aerospace Engineering | GE Global Research | Enhancement of Large Eddy Simulation Tool | $29,998 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Purchase and Implementation of a Learning Management System | $29,750 |
| LaPierre, Tracey | Sociology | Saint Luke's Hospital | Collaboration Agreement: Quality and Value Innovation Consortium – Opioid Project | $29,143 |
| Hanson, Paul | Chemistry | Aspira Chemical | Synthesis of Human Pin1 Inhibitors | $25,000 |
| Shao, Shuanglin | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Prairie Analysis Seminar 2021-2022 | $22,741 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Experimental and Modeling Investigation of Fluid-Fluid and Rock-Fluid Compatibility between Arbuckle and Lansing Kansas City Formations with the Purpose of Produced Water-Exchange between the Two Forms | $20,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Simulating the Effects of Reservoir Management Strategies on In-stream Sediment Load, Streambank Stability, and Water Quality | $20,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Inez Jay Fund | Translation of Injectable-to-Oral Peptide Pharmacotherapy: Application of E-cadherin Binding Peptides as Oral Membrane Permeation Enhancers | $20,000 |
May-June 2020
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shogren, Karrie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Combining the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction and Peer Supports: Examining the Impact on Academic, Social, and Functional Outcomes for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders | $3,300,000 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet & Trust Fund | HHS/ACF Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five | $2,189,814 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Child Care Training Opportunity | Infant-Toddler Specialist Network: KCCTO-KITS Partnership | $1,642,405 |
| Saunders, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Validity of a Nonspeech, Dynamic Assessment of the Alphabetic Principle (DAAP) | $1,397,718 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV: Quality Improvement Supports | $843,409 |
| Wills, Howard | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Postdoctoral Research Training in Special Education and Early Intervention | $760,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | BBSRC-NSF/BIO: A Holistic Approach to Understand Drought Adaptation in Plants, their Symbionts, and Free-living Microbiomes | $719,167 |
| Aly, Esam Eldin | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Unifying Heterogeneity of Extreme-scale Cyberinfrastructures for Higher Productivity and Performance Portability | $550,351 |
| Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel | Physics & Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Research in Heavy-Ion Nuclear Physics: Studying the Initial State of QCD Matter | $447,000 |
| Raza, Muhammad | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Genetic Studies of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Using Consanguineous Families | $439,782 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Identifying Functional Targets of HSV-1 ICP0-directed Degradation | $405,301 |
| Mechem, David | Geography & Atmospheric Sciences | Office of Naval Research | Improving Regional Model Representation of Cloudy Boundary Layers Across Midlatitude Synoptic Systems in NRL COAMPS | $368,321 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Colorado State University | Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning | $367,889 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal and Child Health Services Integration: DAISEY Design & Implementation | $304,312 |
| Shontz, Suzanne | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Department of Defense | Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Infrastructure for Massively Parallel Computing Research (ARO) | $251,147 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department for Children & Families | Quality Support Services | $219,072 |
| Agusto, Foloshade | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | RAPID: COVID-19 Behavior, Perception, and Control Across Geographic and Economic Gradients | $199,999 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | CRII: NeTS: Beyond PHY and Channel Measurements in Millimeter Wave: Towards Low-Overhead and Resilient Multi-hop Networking | $174,214 |
| Mabry, Allyson | Social Welfare | California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions | California Strengths Model Implementation and Compliance Contract | $162,516 |
| Baker, Debra | Kansas Biological Survey | City of Lawrence | Impact Assessment of the Lawrence Waste Water Treatment Plant on the Wakarusa River: Follow-up Assessment | $113,875 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Columbia University | Columbia University's Proposed Response to the New Coronavirus Outbreak | $107,724 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: Administrative Core | $100,882 |
| Nguyen, Trung | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | EAGER: High-Energy-Density Storage for Renewable Energy Sources for Environmental Sustainability | $100,001 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Evaluation of Lightweight Cellular Concrete Fill as Backfill | $87,800 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics & Astronomy | Cornell University | U.S. CMS Upgrades for the HL-LHC | $85,845 |
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education | Wideband Fast Spatial Spectrum Sensing Using Digital Beamforming | $82,800 |
| Robinson, Jennifer | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Behavior of Adipose Stem Cells in 2D and 3D in a Wound Healing Context | $78,210 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: Biomedical Engineering Core | $76,577 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Mercatus Center | COVID-19 Fast Grants | $75,000 |
| Caminero-Santangelo, Marta | Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | Tinker Foundation Inc. | Tinker Field Research Collaborative 2020 | $75,000 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY 2020 | $74,575 |
| Li, Jian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Iowa State University | Robust Wireless Skin Sensor Networks for Long-term Fatigue Crack Monitoring of Bridges | $59,015 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating Approved Therapeutics for their Ability to Inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 ADPribosylhydrolase | $50,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Defense Engineering Corporation | Waveform Research and Development for Emerging RF Sensing Technologies | $49,999 |
| Chang, Chi-Ning | Life Span Institute | National Science Foundation | RAPID: Challenges and e-Mentoring in Engineering Graduate Programs during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak | $44,582 |
| Klusmeier, Susan | Academic Success / Undergraduate Studies | Arizona State University | University Alliance: COVID-19 Emergency Student Aid | $41,666 |
| McLean, Noah | Geology | U.S. Geological Survey | Community for Data Integration (CDI) | $40,137 |
| Holt, Christina | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Kansas Health Foundation | Monitoring and Evaluating the COVID-19 Response in Lawrence-Douglas County | $40,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Benthic Cyanobacterial Mats: A Potential Source of Harmful and Nuisance Compounds to Kansas Streams | $40,000 |
| Lundquist, Erik | Molecular Biosciences | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Directed Cell Migration | $40,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Understanding Host-Virus Coevolution and Viral Trade-offs using a Drosophila DNA Virus | $37,875 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars |
$36,360 |
| Bergman, Patricia | Office of Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Sustainable Heartland Accelerator Regional Partnership (SHARP) Hub | $29,433 |
| Skinner, Daniel | KANU Radio | University of Missouri-Kansas City | Regional Journalism Collaboration Kansas 2020-2021 | $23,643 |
| Schoenen Jr., Frank | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Inez Jay Fund | Design, Synthesis, Analytical Characterization, eAMDE, Formulation, Sub-chronic MTD and In Vivo PK of ML329 Prodrugs | $20,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Inez Jay Fund | Mechanistic Study of RNA Splicing Modulation by Small Molecules | $20,000 |
March-April 2020
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | State of Washington Office of Superintendent | Inclusionary Practices Statewide Professional Development & Support | $1,337,786 |
| Skrtic, Thomas | Special Education | Stanford University | Leadership in Research and Teacher Preparation for System-Wide Inclusive Education | $1,249,879 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Innovations in Science Map, Assessment, and Report Technologies (I-SMART) | $884,610 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ultra Low-Cost Transferable Automated (ULTRA) Platform for Vaccine Manufacturing | $828,787 |
| Zhong, Cuncong | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | National Science Foundation | CAREER: A Novel Bioinformatic Infrastructure for Metagenome Assembly and Functional Annotation | $722,398 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Electric Power Research Institute Inc. | Large High-Strength Steel Reinforcing Bars in Earthquake-Resistant Structures | $650,000 |
| Bulgren, Janis | Life Span Institute | CAST Inc. | CORGI 2020: Scaling Models for the Classrooms of Tomorrow | $523,298 |
| Staples, William | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | SaTC: CORE: Small: Digital Homelessness in the Heartland: Safeguarding and Enhancing the Experiences of Public Internet Users | $516,000 |
| Biernat, Monica | Psychology | National Science Foundation | Learning to Pronounce Ethnic Names as a Means of Improving Inter-Ethnic Interaction | $385,410 |
| Salandrino, Alessandro | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Parametric Resonances in Time-Varying Media for Optical Limiting Applications | $360,986 |
| Holubnyak, Yevhen | Kansas Geological Survey | New Mexico Tech | Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership (CUSP) for the Western USA | $337,706 |
| Lunte, Susan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Kansas Board of Regents | Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways (CMADP) | $300,000 |
| Zieber, Nicole | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Young Infants' Detection of Emotion | $272,075 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Shigella Ipa Proteins Support | $205,713 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Kansas Board of Regents | The Internet of Catalysis: Harnessing the Data Science for Catalyst Design | $200,000 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility | $159,075 |
| McKenna, Thomas | Kansas Biological Survey | Perennial Agriculture Project LLC | Perennial Agriculture Project Proposal for Thomas P. McKenna | $101,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Revenue | Research Services to the Governor's Council on Tax Reform | $100,000 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Wyoming Department of Family Services | State of Wyoming ROM FY2020 | $98,725 |
| Walker, Dale | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $92,254 |
| Zeng, Yong | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicle in Ovarian Cancer | $90,000 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Ecological Momentary Assessment of Unhealthy Exercise and Affect in Eating Disorders | $83,836 |
| Vernberg, Eric | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | The Influence of Executive Functioning on Internalizing and Somatic Symptoms in Trauma-Exposed Arab Resettled Refugee Parent-Child Dyads | $75,321 |
| Thompson, Ward | Chemistry | Sandia National Laboratories | Molecular Modeling of Fluid Properties at Mineral Interfaces | $75,000 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Coordinator Office Year 7 | $53,025 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Arkansas Medical Sciences | Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network | $50,822 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Phrma Foundation | Antigen-Fc Conjugates as Bioinspired Immunotherapeutics | $50,000 |
| Ng, Jennifer | Provost Office | National Endowment for the Arts | KU Indigenous Cultures Festival | $40,000 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / KU Transportation Center | Kansas State University Sponsored Programs Accounting | FY20: Traffice Assistance Services for Kansas (TASK) Program | $39,297 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / KU Transportation Center | Skye Multimedia | National Scheduling and Dispatching Training Manual Update | $35,231 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics & Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology | Spitzer Transits of New TESS Planets | $35,000 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics & Astronomy | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | NRAO Student Observing Support Award to Kurt Hablin | $34,410 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Illinois Urbana-Champain | Technologies to Support Aging-in-Place for People with Long-Term Disabilities | $33,747 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $33,590 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU West Wichita GEAR UP | $33,590 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Does Excess Mid-Infrared Emission Reliably Signal an AGN? | $32,500 |
| Cheatham, Gregory | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Connecticut | Doctoral Training Consortia to Train Doctoral Students in Early Childhood Intervention for Infants and Young Children with High-Intensity Needs because of Significant IDD | $25,707 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Star Trainees | $21,210 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Division of Emergency Management | KDEM User Management Portal and Server Hosting | $20,536 |
| Stiller, Maya | History of Art | The Academy of Korean Studies | Status Pilgrimage: The Cultural Value of Elite Travel to Kumgangsan in Late Choson Korea | $20,000 |
January-February 2020
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Blunt, Shannon |
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Office of Naval Research | Navy Applications of Physical MIMO and Waveform Diversity | $1,730,886 |
| Rogan, Christopher | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Probing the High-Energy Frontier with the CMS Experiment | $949,975 |
| Kelly, John | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Chromosomal Inversions and Gene Expression in Mimulus | $749,581 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | FY 2020 Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) | $600,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Thermo-responsive Absorbent with Selective Absorption for Miscible Liquids Separation | $549,996 |
| Wu, Huixuan | Aerospace Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Quantification of the Kinetic Energy of Particles in Complex Flows using Magnetic Particle Tracking | $500,000 |
| Li, Xianglin | Mechanical Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Pore-Scale Multiphase Mass Transfer in Porous Electrodes | $500,000 |
| Witt, Emily | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | CAREER: New Frontiers for Frobenius, Singularity Theory, Differential Operators, and Local Cohomology | $400,000 |
| Blanco, Gustavo | KUMC Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology/ Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | KU Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program | $360,771 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education | Development Length and Splice Strength of High-Strength Reinforcing Bars in High-Strength Concrete | $300,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of the State Superintendent of Education | DC DLM: 2019-2024 Operational/Testing (Sci) | $246,120 |
| Katz, William | Business | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2020 (federal funds) | $177,819 |
| Liu, Zhipeng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Periodic KPZ Universality | $168,628 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas MIECHV Program | $157,000 |
| Lundquist, Erik | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Regulation of Growth Cone Polarity and Protrusion in Axon Guidance | $140,660 |
| Warren, Steve | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Northwestern University | A Family-Genetic Study of Autism and Fragile X Syndrome | $136,604 |
| Benson, David | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | REU Site: A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment | $126,131 |
| Carta, Judith | Special Education / Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $123,300 |
| Shrader, Sarah | Pharmacy Practice | Health Forward Foundation | JayWalk WyCo: Collaborating for Healthy Lifestyles in Wyandotte County | $106,763 |
| Walker, Dale | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $102,788 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology and Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | WORKSHOP | Modern Methods in Microscopy: Elucidating the Physical Biology of the Cell (Summers 2020 & 2021, Lawrence, KS) | $100,000 |
| Chernetsky, Vitaly | Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies | The U.S. Russia Foundation | A Comprehensive Plan for Strengthening Russian Studies in the Heartland | $98,340 |
| Katz, William | Business | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2020 (state funds) | $93,927 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (ORKA) | $88,500 |
| Buzhardt, Joseph | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Online and Applied System for Intervention Skills (OASIS): Scaling Up | $85,523 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Anthropology / Kansas Geological Survey | History Nebraska | A Statewide Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Predictive Tool for Locating Deeply Buried Archeological Deposits in Nebraska (PHASE II) | $75,000 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Autism Speaks | Mechanisms of Visual Motion Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder | $70,000 |
| Holt, Christina | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Evaluation of the Healthy Schools Healthy Communities Initiative | $63,300 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center | The Role of Sugar (O-GlcNAc) Modification of EWS-FLI1 in Malignant Progression of Ewing's Sarcoma and its Therapeutic Potential | $56,950 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $55,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community-Based Project Evaluation | $55,000 |
| Brumberg, Jonathan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical & Translational Science Institute | $50,000 |
| Brockman, Jennifer | Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Gender-Based Violence Prevention Impact Evaluation | $42,163 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Anthropology / Kansas Geological Survey | R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates Inc | KU Center for Research Inc. & R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates Master Sponsored Research Agreement | $40,775 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Army Educational Outreach Program | Army Educational Outreach Program (UNITE) | $40,262 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development (state funds) | $40,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant for Biotechnology Innovation & Optimization Center (BIOC) | $39,331 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Generating a Mouse to Test Musashi 1 Inhibitors as Anti-tumor Agents | $35,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Neurocorrelates of Episodic Future Thinking and its Impact on Delay Discounting by Cigarette Smokers | $35,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development (federal funds) | $35,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County-Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Department of Health & Environment Contract for Second-Step Evaluation Project | $34,000 |
| Caminero-Santangelo, Marta | Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | Tinker Foundation Inc | Tinker Field Research Grant 2020 | $30,000 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant: Cancer Biology Research Program | $27,693 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | CPS Cancer Prevention and Survivorship Research Program: KUCC Core | $27,435 |
| Cook, Michael | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute | Kansas Division of Emergency Managment | Trainings to Kansas Counties through Kansas University Fire & Rescue Training Institute During the Federal Fiscal Year 2019-2020 | $25,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas | The Economic Impacts of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas | $25,000 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Pharmacology & Toxicology / High Throughput Screening Laboratory | KU Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant Lead Development & Optimization Share Resource | $22,319 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Circulating Extracellular Vesicles for Early Detection and Real-Time Monitoring of Ovarian Cancer | $20,325 |
November - December 2019
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Chandler, Josephine |
Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Quorum Sensing Evolution and Function in Mixed Bacterial Communities | $1,840,725 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Principal and Charter School Site Leadership SWIFT for Equity and Excellence | $1,199,998 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Increased Sensitivity of Minimal Residual Disease Monitoring using Peripheral Blood in Pediatric Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | $910,799 |
| Akin, Becci | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Children & Families | Prevention Grant Evaluation, Families First Prevention Services Act | $861,123 |
| Weis, David | Chemistry | Health Research, Inc. | Lyme Disease: B Cell Epitope Discovery and Mechanisms of Antibody Protection | $808,955 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative | Antigen-Adjuvant Formulation and Characterization Studies to Assess HIV-1 Envelope (Env) Glycoprotein(s) and Adjuvant Formulations | $700,000 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Maryland - Baltimore | Adjuvant Development of the TLR4 Ligand BECC438 | $670,147 |
| Hasiuk, Franciszek | Kansas Geological Survey | Iowa Department of Transportation | Phase III Iowa Pore Index: Morphometric Properties of Aggregates | $345,525 |
| Funk, Ryan | Pharmacy Practice | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Metabolomic Markers of Disease Activity and Therapeutic Response in Autoimmune Arthritis | $227,251 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas A&M Research Foundation | Performance Prediction and Analysis of Airfield Pavements Subjects to Next Generation Aircraft | $225,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $215,916 |
| Boyd, Brian | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Examining Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Extreme Eating Behaviors in Young Children with ASD | $194,682 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: HCBS PACE Research | $173,463 |
| Ewing, Mark | Aerospace Engineering / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Transportation | Master Research Services Agreement for Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight Operations, Technical Integration, and Research | $150,000 |
| Hernandez, Daniel | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | A Study of Hypersurfaces in General Position Inspired by Frobenius | $145,000 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: HCBS PACE Instruction | $135,564 |
| Reuman, Daniel | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of California - Davis | Synchrony of Native Fish Movements: Synthesis Science towards Adaptive Water Management in the Central Valley | $123,571 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | American Chemical Society | Relating Surface Chemistry of Carbonaceous Materials to Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Rates to Advance the Characterization of Petroleum Deposits | $110,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Orange County Department of Education | ACCESS | $108,000 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation of High Mast Illumination Poles: Influence of Light Fixtures | $100,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond | $100,000 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Hafion LLC | Toward the Development of a Protein:Non-Protein Macromolecular Adjuvants | $100,000 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Heising-Simons Foundation | Connecting Regional Research to Local Communities: Helheim Glacier/Sermilik Fjord and Tasiilaq township, East Greenland | $100,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities | Supporting Decision Making: Learning from Self-Advocate Experience | $95,584 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Nature Conservancy | Integrated Watershed Modeling | $93,000 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: CARE INSTRUCTION | $85,348 |
| Yung, Corey Rayburn | School of Law | Harvard University | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | $77,500 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | How Do State Policies Affect Access to TANF Benefits? | $75,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation | Accessible Recreation: Playing Electronic Games Independently to Increase Health & Social Connection | $75,000 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | RNA-Binding Protein HuR in Liver Pathophysiology and Carcinogenesis | $74,797 |
| Hardy, Saralyn Reece | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment for the Arts | Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body | $45,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Cooperative Agreements for Tribal Behavior Health (Native Connections) | $42,282 |
| Li, Xiaoli | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Geology | Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium | Phase Behavior of the Confined Fluids in Carbonate Unconventional Reservoirs | $40,762 |
| McGeough, Briana | Social Welfare | Public Health Institute: Alcohol Research Group | Understanding 12-Step Involvement Among Sexual and Gender Minorities | $34,385 |
| Zeng, Yong | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Exosome Phenotyping for Liquid Biopsy Based Diagnosis and Monitoring of Alzheimer's Disease | $30,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Second Step Evaluation Project | $26,000 |
| Baer, Sara | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Kansas State University | Processes Influencing Community Assembly During Tallgrass Prairie Restoration | $24,659 |
| Peterson, Andrew Townsend | Biodiversity Institute | Northrop Grumman Foundation | Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing to Inform Conservation Planning and Decision-Making in Sapo National Park, Liberia | $20,000 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Core Facility Support (CFS) | $20,000 |
| Bolick, Joshua | Libraries | North Carolina State University | Scholarly Communication Notebook | $17,273 |
September - October 2019
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wills, Howard | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Supporting High-Needs Elementary Students with the CW-FIT Program: Building for Scale and Sustainability | $5,101,906 |
| Peterson, Andrew Townsend | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | RII Track-2 FEC: Marshalling Diverse Big Data Streams to Understand Risk of Tick-Borne Diseases in the Great Plains | $3,921,229 |
| Ptomey, Lauren | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | A Dyadic Approach for a Remote Physical Activity Intervention in Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and their Caregivers | $3,756,677 |
| Kalantari Dahaghi, Amirmasoud | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | U.S. Department of Energy | A Novel Smart Microchip Proppants Technology for Precision Diagnostics of Hydraulic Fracture Networks | $3,490,639 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | NRT-HDR: The Internet of Catalysis - Harnessing Data Science for Catalyst Design | $2,999,967 |
| He, Mei | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | 3D Biomimetic Lymph Node Engineered Extracellular Vesicles for Understanding the Heterogeneity of Adaptive Immunity | $1,893,750 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Advancement in Seismic Imaging for Tunnel Detection: ASI to ASII-Skinny | $1,499,999 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | EarthCube Data Capabilities: Collaborative Proposal: Broadening Community Use and Adoption of StraboSpot | $1,005,934 |
| Wills, Howard | Life Span Institute | University of Missouri-Columbia | Evaluating the Efficacy of a Daily Check-in/Check-out Intervention for Students At-Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders | $730,000 |
| Britt, Nicholas | Pharmacy Practice | Gillead Sciences | Modeling Micro-Elimination of HCV Infection in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Infected Patients in the United States VA Healthcare System | $592,469 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)-Infant and Toddler Expansion | $553,670 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | MRI: Acquisition of an Advanced Gravimetric Analyzer for Material Research at KU-Lawrence | $537,459 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $430,572 |
| Suarez, Marina | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Time of Transformation: Integrating the Dynamic Geologic, Climatic and Biotic Systems of North America during the Early to Late Cretaceous Transition | $408,739 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Development and Application of a Molecular and Process Design Framework for the Separation of Hydrofluorocarbo Mixtures | $299,710 |
| Carlson, Juliana | Social Welfare | Futures Without Violence | A Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare | $280,995 |
| Hardy, Saralyn Reece | Spencer Museum of Art | Institute of Museum & Library Services | Building Capacity for Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion at the Spencer Museum of Art | $271,181 |
| Houts, Michael | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism | Greater Prairie Chicken Interstate Working Group Planning and Coordination | $252,878 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | The Chemours Company | Physical Properties of Refrigerants in Lubricants, Polymers, and Higher Boiling Heat Transfer Fluids: KU-Chemours Part II | $244,766 |
| Mechem, David | Geography & Atmospheric Sciences | University of Maryland-Baltimore | Characterizing the Variation and Covariation of Cloud Microphysical Properties and Implications for Simulation of Subgrid-Scale Warm-Rain Processes in Earth System Models | $242,774 |
| Feldman, Hume | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Beyond the Bulk Flow: Developing More Powerful Analysis Methods to Test Consistency of Large-Scale Flows with the Standard Cosmological Model | $232,692 |
| Funk, Ryan | Pharmacy Practice | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $155,871 |
| Fischer, Christopher | Physics & Astronomy / Higuchi Biosciences Center | American Physical Society | PhysTEC: Building a Solution to the National Physics Teacher Shortage | $147,450 |
| Brook, Joanna | Social Welfare | Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services | Oklahoma Partnership Initiative, Phase 3: Program Evaluation FY2020 | $135,000 |
| Pribbenow, Glenn | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) FY18 | $135,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Sediment Coring for HAB Trends at Webster and Kanopolis Reservoirs | $100,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | United Way, Kansas City, Missouri | United Way Quality Matter Technical Assistance | $100,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $95,006 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services | Home Visiting Data Collection and Management - Nebraska | $94,987 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Oxford | Evaluating Military Family Programming | $90,256 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Children's Museum of Tacoma | Evaluating Military Family Programming | $90,256 |
| Freeman, Craig | Biodiversity Institute | Oklahoma State University | Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research | Earth and Sky: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States | $78,867 |
| Kepple, Nancy | Social Welfare / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Institute of Justice | Marco-Level Influences on Police Decision-Making and Engagement with Victims of Serious Violent Crimes: A Narrative Case Study of Two States | $78,783 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Coming Together and Moving Forward: Supporting Self-Determination, Independence, and Decision-Making in Kansas | $75,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: Biomedical Engineering Core | $74,697 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Oklahoma State University | Measuring Transport Properties of Portland Cement Concrete Using Electrical Resistivity | $71,158 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translations Science Institute | $68,422 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Southeast Kansas Respite Care Services (SEKRS) | $66,100 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project | National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention | $65,000 |
| Lamb, Audrey | Molecular Biosciences / Graduate Studies | National Science Foundation | Graduate Research Fellowship Program | $51,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | With Foundation | Promoting Supported Decision Making Planning for Self-Advocates and Families | $50,000 |
| Slusky, David | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Conferences to Strengthen the Kansas Health Economics Community | $49,763 |
| Walker, James | Geology | Columbia University | IEDA 2016-2021: Operation of a Multi-Disciplinary Data Facility for the Earth Science Community | $49,559 |
| Banwart, Mary Christine | Communication Studies / Institute for Leadership Studies | The Women's Foundation of Greater Kansas City | Kansas Women's Civic Leadership through the Appointments Project and Ready to Run, Kansas | $46,500 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | Evaluation of the Wichita North GEAR UP Program | $40,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | GEAR UP, South Wichita Project | $40,000 |
| Jarmolowicz, David | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Kansas State University | Effects of Exercise on Animal Cognition | $37,875 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Enterprise Center of Johnson County | Kansas Entrepreneurship Report | $35,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Active Treatment Training Program-Kansas Neurological Institute | $35,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Active Treatment Training Program-Parsons State Hospital | $35,000 |
| Besson, David | Physics & Astronomy | NASA Goddard Space Center | Ultra-High Energy Particle Astrophysics with ANITA-V - University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (Co-I) | $30,000 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | Stockholm University | Ripples of Resilience: Navigating Cross-Scale SDG Interactions of Water, Land and Climate within Planetary Boundaries | $24,244 |
| Rice, Mabel | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Tulane University | Pediatric HIV/Aids Cohort Study (PHACS) Coordinating Center (CC)(U01) | $22,695 |
| Coleman, Audrey | Dole Institute of Politics | Humanities Kansas | Voices from Congressman Dole's Kansas, 1960-1968 | $20,000 |
July - August 2019
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Synapse Structural Dynamics and Memory Loss in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease | $1,839,822 |
| Smith, Adam | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Structural and Functional Connectivity of the Social Decision-Making Network | $1,835,772 |
| Hill, Mary | Geology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | FEWtures: Innovation Analysis Framework for Resilient Futures, with Application to the Central Arkansas River Basin | $1,400,000 |
| Beach, James | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | CIBR: Collaborative Research: Integrating Data Communities with BiotaPhy: A Computational Platform for Data-Intensive Biodiversity Research and Training | $1,245,287 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Cool Science: Art as a Vehicle for Intergenerational Learning | $799,323 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | North Dakota Department of Public Instruction | North Dakota DLM: 2019-2020 Operational/Testing (Sci) + Science Development | $664,500 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Office of Naval Research | Waveform Diversity Experimentation System (WaDES) | $622,882 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Science Foundation | CAREER: UAS-Based Radar Suite for Sounding and Mapping Glaciers | $609,816 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | CEBC + Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | PFI-RP: Development of Continuous Process Concepts for Upgrading Lignin in Biorefineries | $549,915 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration | Airborne Snow Depth Retrieval for Improved Hydrological Modeling | $499,926 |
| Thorp III, James | Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Proposal | MRA: Teleconnections Among Great Plains NEON Sites by Wind and Wing | $417,130 |
| Lamb, Audrey | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | The Chemistry of Riboflavin Biosynthesis | $400,000 |
| Elles, Christopher | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Broadband Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy for High-Repetition Rate Lasers | $397,788 |
| Baer, Sara | Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | LTREB Renewal: The Role of Ecological Heterogeneity in a Long-Term Grassland Restoration Experiment | $392,655 |
| Jackson, Timothy | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Geometric and Electronic Structure Contributions to Bond-Breaking and Bond-Making Reactions of Mid-Valent Manganese-Oxygen Complexes | $390,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas ECCS Impact Grant | $386,646 |
| Chandler, Josephine | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Quorum Sensing Rvolution and Function in Mixed Bacterial Communities | $368,145 |
| Sullivan, Pamela | Geography & Atmospheric Science | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Digging Deeper: Do Deeper Roots Enhance Deeper Water and Carbon Fluxes and Alter the Trajectory of Chemical Weathering in Woody Encroached Grasslands? | $334,681 |
| Irvin, Dwight | Life Span Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | CSL-MultiAD: Assessing Collaborative STEM Learning through Rich Information Flow Based on Multi-Sensor Audio Diarization | $300,000 |
| Baringer, Philip | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Particle Physics at the Energy Frontier with the CMS Experiment | $300,000 |
| Hoeflich, Michael | Law / Hall Center for the Humanities | Department of Defense | University of Kansas IC Center for Academic Excellence (KU-ICCAE) | $295,967 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Ohio State University | Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury | $293,507 |
| Jensen, Kirsten | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Cestode Phylogeny and Genomics: A Spine for the Spineless, Gutless worms | $286,810 |
| Roy, Anuradha | High Throughput Screening Lab | Kansas State University | Discovery of Hsp100-Selective Inhibitors for Targeting Multiple Microbial Pathogens - High Throughput Screening | $286,509 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Equipment Exchange: Increasing Access to Durable Medical Equipment (DME) | $285,000 |
| Stefanov, Atanas | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves | $231,127 |
| Suarez, Marina | Geology | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Continental Paleoenvironmental Responses to Carbon Cycle Perturbations During the Mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse | $230,971 |
| Taylor, Michael | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | What Created the Southern Tibetan Plateau Drainage Divide? Integrated Tectonic and Geomorphic Investigation of the Gangdese Range and Yarlung River | $229,448 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Assisting Medicaid Beneficiaries in Accessing Assistive Technology (ATK) | $228,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Children & Families | EPIC Skillz Project FY20 | $208,464 |
| Peltier, Edward | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Office | Pilot Test Project for Produced Water near Hardtner, Kansas | $199,175 |
| Orive, Maria | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | SG: Clonality and the Scope for Adaptation in Heterogeneous Environments | $162,324 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Genetic Dissection and Characterization of Variation in Copper Resistance in Drosophila Melanogaster | $122,836 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | HKA | A Guidebook for Risk-Based Construction Inspection | $122,601 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Maintain Existing and Wxpand Kansas-Based Data Services to the NGWMN | $84,720 |
| Stewart, Debora | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Preservation of Kansas Oil and Gas Well Geologic Data, Records, and Samples, and Aerial Photographs, FY2019 | $82,549 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment for the Arts | Exploring Marginalized Communities Through the Woman's Voice | $70,000 |
| Michaelis, Elias | HBC + Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KU ADC Mitochondrial Genomics and Metabolism Core Supplement | $63,551 |
| Yan, Xinmai | Mechanical Engineering | Vesarex LLC | Ultrasound-Facilitated Endovascular Laser Thrombolysis | $58,541 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry + Mechanical Engineering / Chemistry | Digital Nanogenetics LLC | A Novel Single Molecule Sequencing Technology for Direct, Label-less Detection of Unamplified DNA Single Molecules | $41,738 |
| MacDonald, Teresa | Biodiversity Institute | University of California - Berkeley | STEM Escape: Immersing Urban and Rural Families in Biomedical Mysteries | $31,969 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Theatre on the Spectrum | $30,000 |
| Geana, Mugur | Journalism | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Sexual Health Empowerment for Jail-Involved Women's Health Literacy and Prevention | $28,650 |
| Stachnik, Justin | Geography & Atmospheric Science | University of Oklahoma | Analysis of TRMM-GPM Observation to Improve Our Process Level Understanding and Modeling of Precipitation and Latent Heating in Tropical Easterly Waves | $26,075 |
May - June 2019
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Administrative Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Enhanced Implementation of K-Scope & ASII Tunnel Detection Analysis Approach Using FWI, Modal Segmentation Methods, and Integrated Multi-Modal Techniques | $3,630,349 |
| Hock, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Possible Selves and Self-Determination: Improving Transition Outcomes for High School Students with Learning Disabilities | $3,293,003 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Defense | Development of a Military-Specific Transdiagnostic Eating-Disorder Survey and Screening Tool in a Nationally Representative Sample of Veterans | $1,721,698 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Professional Development to Support Intervention Implementation of the Promoting Communication Tools for Advancing Language in Kids (PC TALK) for Infants and Toddlers at Risk for or with Disabilities | $1,400,000 |
| Boyd, Brian | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Effects of Implicit Bias on Children's Early Outcomes | $1,400,000 |
| Sailor, Wayne | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project DataWall: A Decision Support System for MTSS | $1,388,621 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovations | $1,038,035 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Bilateral BBSRC-NSF/BIO: CIBR: Structural Modeling of Interactome to Assess Phenotypic Effects of Genetic Variation | $957,042 |
| Perkins, Jonathan | Academic Resource Center, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Institute for International Education | Building Language Capacity and Cultural Competency to Meet National Security Needs: The University of Kansas Language Training Center | $704,002 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | NASA Goddard Space Center | AGILE: Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope | $659,940 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Engineering Interfaces for High-Performance Oxide Superconductor Nanocomposite Films | $502,749 |
| Alexander, Perry | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Adventium Labs | Vulnerabilities Out of Learned Timed Automata (VOLTA) | $459,520 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | IDPH CQI Support and Module Development (FY2019) | $442,221 |
| Picking, William | Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Identification of Small Molecule Probes for Dissecting the Roles of Sorting Platform Components within the Type III Secretion System | $416,625 |
| Chapman, Shawna | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | LYFTE: Lifting Young Families toward Excellence | $335,227 |
| Ginther, Donna | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: The Effect of State Disinvestment in Higher Education on Research Quality and Returns to Scale in Science Funding | $236,790 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Title V MCH Statewide Needs Assessment | $216,281 |
| Wehmeyer, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | AspirePlus: A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership to Promote Self-Determination and More Positive Student Outcomes | $199,961 |
| Bever, James | Kansas Biological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Legume-Rhizobia Mutualism as a Driver of Grassland Composition and Community Resistance to Invasion | $150,670 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | Control of Chromosome Segregation by DNA Topoisomerase II | $150,371 |
| Dunn, Robert | Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Institutes of Health | Scanning Resonator Microscopy | $142,202 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Integrated Biotherapeutics Inc. | Mining Natively Paired Macaque Antibodies for Marburg Virus Protective Antibodies | $129,989 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Universities Space Research Association | Searching for Torus Emission in Cold Quasars | $114,300 |
| Luo, Bo | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Stars | $98,411 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Fibertek Inc. | Acquisition Design and Data Conditioning in Advance of Implementation of K-Scope for Assessment of Groundbreaker Capabilities to Improve Subterranean Detection Capabilities | $87,701 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering | Wichita State University | National Space Grant Consortium College and Fellowship 2019 | $67,950 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community Based Project Evaluation | $60,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal | $52,303 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Ensuring Mental Health Needs are Met for All Students Through a Multi-Tiered System of Support | $51,910 |
| Sullivan, Pamela | Geography & Atmospheric Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Colorado School of Mines | CZ RCN: Building Capacity to Deepen the Critical Zone: Expanding Boundaries and Exploring Gradients through Data-Model Synergy | $40,049 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Summer Scholars Y6 | $36,360 |
